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26.07.2010
Puntland: Heavily armed security forces from Somalia's northern stable state of Puntland have clashed with militia loyal to a militant group near Bossaso, the region's commercial capital, Radio Garowe reports. Read more
Puntland: Shabaab and security forces from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia have clashed in a region that has been described as the Tora Bora of East Africa. Read more
23.07.2010
| SOMALIA: Somaliland clashes displace thousands near Dharkayn Geenyo district |
 Dharkayn geenyo, 23 July 2010 (IRIN) - Several thousand people in northern Somalia have been displaced in recent weeks by clashes between Somaliland troops and a new rebel group, according to local and UN sources. full report |
23.07.2010
Fears of a new Tora Bora in Somalia Sanaag mountains, Puntland Somalia - Read more
17.07.10
A new armed group is threatening to launch a violent campaign for the reunification of Somalia.
The group is known as SSC, the initials of the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn regions they say that they want to liberate.
These regions are currently disputed over by both the breakaway Somaliland Republic and the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in North East Somalia.
"Our ultimate goal is to make this area peaceful and prosperous and also seek a united Somalia," Ali Sabarey, the deputy leader of SSC, told Al Jazeera.
However, Somaliland officials dismiss the SSC as ineffective, saying that their threats are hollow.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow has this exclusive report from the SSC stronghold of Buuhoodle.
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28.06.10
 Somaliland's Bogus Election.
The over - hyped presidential election in the one-clan based secessionist enclave calling itself Somaliland, otherwise the NW region of Somalia, is more than a race for the post among the competing candidates. Full report
28.06.10
| SOMALIA: School clubs help Somaliland children overcome trauma |
 HARGEISA, 28 June 2010 (IRIN) - When Sabah Ismail Ali, a social worker in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland, first started working with children, truancy and aggression were common, especially among children from families with problems such as extreme poverty and displacement. full report |
23.06.10
| SOMALIA: Disabled children in Somaliland "must come first" |
 Children with disabilities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are a forgotten lot, often not factored into the country’s education, livelihood and health policies, child rights activists said on 16 June, during a ceremony marking the Day of the African Child. full report
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| SOMALIA: Taking shelter in State House |
 Khadra Osman Ismail collected tyre tubes, empty sacks, old clothes and boxes, then sat down to stitch together the new roof of her shelter in Hargeisa, capital of Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland. full report |
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14.06.10
 US-Backed Somali Government Using Child Soldiers:
An American newspaper reports that Somalia's government is using child soldiers in its fight against Islamist militant groups. Read more ; See the video.
09.06.10
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'Lucky' youth wants to help less fortunate |
"My family and I are really lucky to come to Canada and I want to go back some day to help be one of the people that are part of the solution and not part of the problem," she says. "I know the situation they came from, so I have an appreciation of what they went through." Read more
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On Ethiopia’s violent incursion, Buuhoodle slaughter, and Somaliland’s aggression on Widh-Widh near Dharkayn Geenyo Town in Northern Somalia. Read more
27.05.10
The Buuhoodle Massacre near Dharkayn Geenyo and its link to the Somaliland Elections Read more
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24.05.10
 Fresh fighting between the inhabitans of sool, Sanaag and cayn region in Northern Somalia clashed in Widhwidh district in cayn region of Somalia. The area where the fighting is erupted is not too far from Dharkayn geenyo. There might be further clashes as war preparations are underway in the region. Read more ...
22.mai.10
Somaliland-Ethiopia border clash 'kills 13'. At least 13 people have died in a clash between Somalis and Ethiopian forces who had crossed the border, village elders told the BBC. Les mer
01.mai.10
...Allawi sier naboen i det sørøstlige Somalia fikk den samme ordren. Men han giftet...lignende beretninger om nylige hendelser i Somalia.Allawi forteller at al-Shababs krigere en gang...ikke blitt et eneste menneske igjen i Somalia, sier Allawi (37).Musikk er blant...
17.april.10
Dagen da musikken døde i Somalia
Somalia er et land med svært lange og varierte musikktradisjoner... kontrollerer store områder av det krigsherjede Somalia, hadde på forhånd gitt radioene i en tidagersfrist...En regjeringskontrollert radiostasjon i Somalia er den eneste som trosser forbudet. Dessuten... Les mer
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| SOMALIA: Poverty pushes Bosasso children on to streets |
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 A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, with NGOs and government officials calling for urgent steps to resolve the problem.
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27.feb.10
| SOMALIA: Ade Sheikdon Negeye, "Having leprosy has worsened my displacement" |
 Displaced and ostracized, his drug supply cut off because of conflict, Ade Sheikdon Negeye, a resident of the town of Beletweyne in central Somalia, is caught up in a cycle of suffering. He is one of 49 leprosy patients displaced from the town when fighting between two Islamist groups intensified in early February in Hiran region, central Somalia. He spoke to IRIN about his plight:
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17.feb.10
16.feb.2010
"The price people pay for ignorance". Shukria (a man) lived as a woman for 25 years in North Eastern Kenya. Read more
09.feb.2010
"Time for a new Somali policy"
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Media Breif on Somalia |
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SOMALIA: IRIN Radio Somali service broadcasts one hour daily.
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Photo slideshow, North Eastern Kenya
Puntland:
Special Report on CBC the National (Canada) about Puntland, Somalia.
NOMAD BOY - SOMALI DOCUMENTARY 1960's
Limit to Submission
(Somali Documentary 1980)
The Story of the Darwishes and Sayid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan.
Inside Somalia
- Life is hell in Somalia ..... les mer
- The day i will be a pilot, Somalia through kids' eyes. YouTube
- Somalia: Nasir Ahmed - " I feel bad every time i see children my age going to school" les mer
Somaliske Barne - og Ungdomsforening ( SBU )
I november i fjor begynte organisasjonen Somalisk Barne – og Ungdomsforening (SBU) å jobbe internt for å bedre barne - og ungdomsmiljøet i Kristiansand. Dette skal feires 20. januar på Samsen. Isha Development Committee vil vise sin støtte til dette arbeidet og rose ungdommene for initiativet og engasjementet de har vist. Det er viktig å sette fokus på dette arbeidet fordi : Les mer
In-Depth: Separated Somali Children |
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The announcement by the government of Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland that there were no refugees in the region – only economic migrants from neighbouring countries – has angered hundreds of refugees in the country. 
Fatuma Mohamed, a refugee from Somalia, has been living with her six children in a camp in Kakuma, northwest Kenya, since March 2006. She told IRIN how her husband had tried to sell her then 14-year-old daughter into marriage.
With more and more drought-affected pastoralists in the self-declared republic of Somaliland seeking alternative livelihoods in urban areas, aid organizations and the government are instituting measures to not only check the rural-urban migration but also support those remaining in rural areas.
Clashes between government troops and Islamist insurgents have displaced more than 55,000 people from Mogadishu since the beginning of February, with many of them heading out of Somalia to neighbouring Kenya, according to the UN Refugee Agency. 
One minute Halimo Mohamed, 40, was at home with her children, the next she was on the move, fleeing violence in Somalia's capital, after her Karan neighbourhood, in north Mogadishu, was hit by a barrage of shells, killing dozens and destroying homes, including hers. 
NAIROBI, 15 March 2010 (IRIN) - Five days of fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have left residents without food, cut off from their homes and unable to bury their dead, civil society leaders in the city said. 
The number of people seeking mental health treatment has increased in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, despite the existence of only one small health unit, officials said. 
Community leaders in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are filling the gaps in aid distribution by raising funds to assist thousands displaced by fighting, leaders said.
